Improvement in buttons



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e. BECKER` AND MORRIS wIsE,y 0E NEW YORK,y N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 98,338, dated December 28, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS.-

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

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Figure 2 is a similar section of a modification thereof.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts. v

This invention relates to a. button, which is com- -posed of a head with a tubular shank, to receive the fastening-screw, and to lit into a sleeve and into an eyelet, in such a manner, that when the eyeletis fastened in the fabrieto which the button is to be attached, and the button is secured in position, by rrfeans of the fastening-screw and tubular shank-head, the sleeve is free to turn, and, at the same time, the

eyelet protects 'the fabric, Vto which the button is at.

taehed, i'omgabrasion. Instead of allowing the sleeve to revolve, however, 'an additional swivel-head may be fastened in' the tubular shank-head.

In the drawing'- The letter A represents the head of our btton.

This head is provided with a tubular shank, a, that is provided with an internal screw-thread, to receive the fastening-screw b.

The tubular shank' a passes through a sleeve, c, and into an eyelet, d, which is situatedbetween the sleeve and the fastening-screw.

When our button is to be attached to a garment, or other article, we first punch al hole in the proper place, large enough to receive the eyelet d, and then we secure the eyelet, and fasten the button, as shown in the drawing, the tubular shank-head A being so constructed that the same, when screwed down tight, y

abuts against a shoulder, e, on the fastening-screw, allowing the sleeve c to revolve, so that the operation of buttoning the garment, or other article, is facilitated, and the button is not liable to be wrenched ofi', as it is when the same, or that `part thereof which is intended to receive the button-hole, is not permitted to revolve.

For certain purposes, such, for instance, as buttongaiters, We propose to secure in the tubular shankhead A an additional swivel-head, j', as shown in iig.

2, and in this case, the sleeve c may be fastened down tight, the swivel-head f being intended to receive the button-hole.-

By the action of the eyelet, the surface of the fabric to which the button is attached is protected against injury from the revolving sleeve c. When this sleeve is fastened down tight, and not intended to revolve, the eyelet can be dispensed with.

Whatwe claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- 1. The fastening-screw b, provided with a shoulder, e, in combinationwith the tubular, shank-head A and Sleeve c, constructed and operating substantially as shown and described.

2.- The eyelet d, in combination with the fasteningscrew l1, tubular shank-head A, and sleeve c, substantially vas set forth.

3. The swivel-head f, in combination with the tubular shank A, sleeve c, and fastening-screw b, substantially as described.

rlhis specification signed by us, this 11th day of November, 1869.

(l. BECKER.

`MORRIS WISE.

Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

